GoKawiil - Latest Tech News & Aggregated Headlines

Internet age verification begins rollout, and Apple is set to be dragged into it

9to5mac.com Ben Lovejoy 2026-01-02 03:52:04

The UK has become the first major country to introduce a legal requirement for internet age verification, but it affects all websites and apps worldwide. Additionally, the US has recently revived a bill very similar to the British legislation. While the law was presented as a way to prevent children accessing adult websites, the reality is very different, and we’re already seeing the privacy risks of good intentions being turned into bad legislation – with iMessage and FaceTime in the firing li

Topics: age apps law legislation websites

Shop Amazon

When progress doesn’t feel like home: Why many are hesitant to join the AI migration

venturebeat.com Gary Grossman 2026-01-01 15:15:00

Want smarter insights in your inbox? Sign up for our weekly newsletters to get only what matters to enterprise AI, data, and security leaders. Subscribe Now When my wife recently brought up AI in a masterclass for coaches, she did not expect silence. One executive coach eventually responded that he found AI to be an excellent thought partner when working with clients. Another coach suggested that it would be helpful to be familiar with the Chinese Room analogy, arguing that no matter how sophis

Topics: ai cognitive just migration tools

Shop Amazon

How big can I print my image?

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-29 05:36:03

How big can I print my image? Jul 24, 2025 For an image to look as sharp as real life, it needs to have a resolution higher then that of the human eye: usually around 1 arcminute, or 1/60th of a degree. $$ \text{Linear resolution} = \frac{\text{Distance}}{\text{1 radian}} \times 1 \text{ arcminutes} $$ $$ \text{Linear resolution }(\text{inches}) = \text{Distance (m)} \times 0.0115 $$ $$ \text{Features / Inch } = \frac{87}{\text{Distance (m)}} $$ For an image to look good at 1 meter, around

Topics: image inch pixels resolution text

Shop Amazon

Fourble turns lists of MP3 files hosted anywhere into podcasts

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-28 17:58:35

Browse by category This functionality is currently under construction, but you can now also (to some extent) browse the archives by category.

Topics: archives browse category construction currently

Shop Amazon

Solid protocol restores digital agency

news.ycombinator.com Bruce Schneier 2025-12-28 16:32:50

How Solid Protocol Restores Digital Agency The current state of digital identity is a mess. Your personal information is scattered across hundreds of locations: social media companies, IoT companies, government agencies, websites you have accounts on, and data brokers you’ve never heard of. These entities collect, store, and trade your data, often without your knowledge or consent. It’s both redundant and inconsistent. You have hundreds, maybe thousands, of fragmented digital profiles that ofte

Topics: access data identity information solid

Shop Amazon

The video game adaptation of cult classic Toxic Crusaders cartoon finally gets a release date

engadget.com Unknown 2026-01-01 22:30:50

The streets of Tromaville, New Jersey are calling once again as the video game adaptation of the off-the-wall cartoon series Toxic Crusaders gets a release date. Seen in an official trailer from Retroware that was shown off during San Diego Comic-Con and shared online by IGN, the Toxic Crusaders game is releasing on December 4 on PlayStation, Xbox, Nintendo Switch and Steam. As a true callback to the quirky cartoon from the '90s, the video game is designed as a side-scrolling beat 'em up, all p

Topics: adaptation cartoon crusaders series toxic

Shop Amazon

National Aviation Reporting Center on Anomalous Phenomena

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-01-01 20:31:39

Many reports by pilots and aviation professionals of observations and incidents involving unidentified aerial phenomena, or UAP, include aviation safety factors. NARCAP documents and researches these reports and advocates for education and further research by the aviation and science community. All photographs provided by Ted Roe or NARCAP.org and are Copyrighted, all rights reserved

Topics: aerial aviation copyrighted narcap reports

Shop Amazon

Formal specs as sets of behaviors

news.ycombinator.com Lorin Hochstein 2026-01-01 21:13:55

Amazon’s recent announcement of their spec-driven AI tool, Kiro, inspired me to write a blog post on a completely unrelated topic: formal specifications. In particular, I wanted to write about how a formal specification is different from a traditional program. It took a while for this idea to really click in my own head, and I wanted to motivate some intuition here. In particular, there have been a number of formal specification tools that have been developed in recent years which use programmi

Topics: behavior behaviors formal set specification

Shop Amazon

GPT might be an information virus (2023)

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-01-01 21:23:21

Obligatory: the views and opinions expressed in this post are my own and do not represent the views and opinions of my employer. In light of all the hype going around about ChatGPT, I wanted to offer my “hot take” on what the next 2-5 years of the web look like. One aspect of the rise of generative models that isn’t getting the right amount of attention is the long-term effects on the information economy. I think that being able to automatically produce arbitrary content that is indistinguisha

Topics: content generated google information web

Shop Amazon

Prepare to Celebrate 60 Years of ‘Star Trek’ With Nacelle’s Nostalgic Figures

gizmodo.com James Whitbrook 2026-01-01 17:00:28

Star Trek turns 60 next year, and the franchise is preparing to celebrate in style, especially with a brand new show on the way in Starfleet Academy. But outside of streaming, you’ll be able to celebrate in style with Nacelle’s new line of Star Trek action figures, which will dedicate a whole wave to the original series next year—and io9 has your first up-close look at one of them. As previously (and exclusively) revealed by io9 this past Friday, the third wave of Nacelle’s Star Trek line is se

Topics: action nacelle star trek wave

Shop Amazon

AI Is Taking Over Your Search Engine. Here's a Look Under the Hood

cnet.com See Full Bio 2026-01-01 16:00:05

For decades, the way we find information on the internet changed only in small ways. Doing a traditional Google search today doesn't feel all that different from when, in the 1990s, you would Ask Jeeves. Sure, a lot has changed under the hood, the results are likely far more relevant and the interface has some new features, but you're still typing in keywords and getting a list of websites that might hold the answer. That way of searching, it seems, is starting to go the way of AltaVista, may i

Topics: ai google information said search

Shop Amazon

Today's NYT Connections Hints, Answers and Help for July 28, #778

cnet.com See Full Bio 2026-01-01 21:00:05

Looking for the most recent Connections answers? Click here for today's Connections hints, as well as our daily answers and hints for The New York Times Mini Crossword, Wordle, Connections: Sports Edition and Strands puzzles. Today's NYT Connections puzzle features another movie category, so cinema fans, dig in. Need more help? Read on for clues and today's Connections answers. The Times now has a Connections Bot, like the one for Wordle. Go there after you play to receive a numeric score and

Topics: answers connections group hints today

Shop Amazon

Today's NYT Connections: Sports Edition Hints and Answers for July 28, #308

cnet.com See Full Bio 2026-01-01 21:00:06

Looking for the most recent regular Connections answers? Click here for today's Connections hints, as well as our daily answers and hints for The New York Times Mini Crossword, Wordle and Strands puzzles. I learned enough during gym-class track days to ace today's Connections: Sports Edition green category. Need an assist with the game today? Read on for hints and the answers. Connections: Sports Edition is out of beta now, making its debut on Super Bowl Sunday, Feb. 9. That's a sign that the

Topics: answers connections group sports today

Shop Amazon

Computing’s Top 30: John Werner

computer.org Laurel Tweed 2026-01-01 18:00:44

What drives a master inventor? If it’s IBM’s John Werner, it’s both voracious curiosity and a passion for solving real-world problems. These dual drives have resulted in more than 270 patents filed and 139 issued—and in Werner’s being named an IBM Master Inventor in 2018. Today, Werner is a Senior Electromagnetic Compatibility and Product Safety Designer Engineer at IBM, where he specializes in compliance testing and thrives in what he calls the company’s “ecosystem of brilliant minds.” He is

Topics: engineering ibm innovation new product

Shop Amazon

Dumb Pipe

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-01-01 20:25:47

Connect A to B. Send Data. In 2023 it's hard to connect two devices directly. Dumb pipe punches through NATs, using on-the-fly node identifiers. It even keeps your machines connected as network conditions change. What you actually do with that connection is up to you.

Topics: 2023 actually change conditions connect

Shop Amazon

Breaking From Tradition, ThinkPad X9 Offers a Cheap Path to OLED Ultraportable

cnet.com See Full Bio 2026-01-01 16:00:11

7.8 / 10 SCORE Lenovo ThinkPad X9 14 Aura Edition $1,337 at Lenovo Pros Thin, sturdy design Includes OLED display for a great price Excellent haptic touchpad Great battery life Cons So-so performance Keyboard isn't up to ThinkPad standard Heavier than it looks Aura Edition stuff is more marketing fluff than anything actually useful For a laptop line steeped in tradition like the ThinkPad, one that goes back before Lenovo acquired IBM's computer business, the Lenovo ThinkPad X9 14 Aura Ed

Topics: 14 edition lenovo thinkpad x9

Shop Amazon

Implementing dynamic scope for Fennel and Lua

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-28 14:49:58

I’m continuing my work on fennel-cljlib, my port of clojure.core and some other core libraries, focusing on porting missing functions and features to it. One such feature, which I sometimes miss in Lua and Fennel, is dynamic binding. The Lua VM doesn’t provide dynamic scoping as a language feature, and Fennel itself doesn’t introduce any concepts like Clojure’s Var . However, we can still implement dynamic scoping that works similarly to Clojure and other Lisps using the debug library. Most of

Topics: binding bindings dynamic function let

Shop Amazon

The Electron E1 Processor

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-01-01 18:37:42

Innovation demands processors that can keep up. Readily available processors are built on technology that is over 70 years old. This limits innovation. To meet modern demands, processors must be entirely reimagined, breaking free from the constraints that have plagued computing for decades. This spatial dataflow architecture supports general-purpose computing, without being bound by the constraints of traditional processor designs or limited by fixed-purpose accelerators. The Electron E1

Topics: computing constraints innovation processors purpose

Shop Amazon

Low cost mmWave 60GHz radar sensor for advanced sensing

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-29 02:41:39

The BGT60TR13C is a 60 GHz radar sensor with Antennas in Package (AIP) in an L-shaped array. Its built-in Finite-State Machine (FSM) manages FMCW frequency sweeps, data acquisition, and sample storage into the internal FIFO memory, while optimized power modes and DC duty cycling minimize power consumption. The sensor is configured and controlled via a standard SPI interface, allowing for easy integration into various applications.

Topics: 60 acquisition antennas power sensor

Shop Amazon

Fast and cheap bulk storage: using LVM to cache HDDs on SSDs

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-01-01 18:38:27

Since the inception of solid-state drives (SSDs), there has been a choice to make—either use SSDs for vastly superior speeds, especially with non-sequential read and writes (“random I/O”), or use legacy spinning rust hard disk drives (HDDs) for cheaper storage that’s a bit slow for sequential I/O and painfully slow for random I/O. The idea of caching frequently used data on SSDs and storing the rest on HDDs is nothing new—solid-state hybrid drives (SSHDs) embodied this idea in hardware form, wh

Topics: cache cached dev lvm partition

Shop Amazon

‘Alien: Earth’ Crashes Into Comic-Con With a Massive Outdoor Experience

gizmodo.com Germain Lussier 2026-01-01 16:15:38

The USCSS Maginot, a Weyland Yutani research vessel, crashed into the large lawn next to Hall H at San Diego Comic-Con this weekend. Onlookers remarked they hoped there was nothing dangerous on board, as containers had spilled all over the surrounding area. That’s both the tease for a very cool activation put together by FX for its new show, Alien: Earth, as well as the setup for Alien: Earth itself. The show, which debuts August 12, centers on a crashed ship and all the horrors that it contain

Topics: activation alien earth experience just

Shop Amazon

Where are vacation homes located in the US?

news.ycombinator.com Brian Potter 2026-01-01 14:00:32

As of 2023, the US has around 142.3 million housing units: roughly one home for every 2.4 people in the country. The vast majority of these homes – 127.5 million – are occupied. The remaining 14.8 million homes are vacant. Of these, around 4.8 million homes, or around 3.5% of the total, are vacant because they’re seasonal, or vacation, homes. I’ve spent a lot of time writing about patterns of housing and home construction in the US, but virtually none of it has been looking at vacation homes sp

Topics: census homes near states vacation

Shop Amazon

OCaml Programming: Correct and Efficient and Beautiful

news.ycombinator.com Michael R. Clarkson Et Al. 2026-01-01 17:18:38

OCaml Programming: Correct + Efficient + Beautiful# A textbook on functional programming and data structures in OCaml, with an emphasis on semantics and software engineering. This book is the textbook for CS 3110 Data Structures and Functional Programming at Cornell University. A past title of this book was “Functional Programming in OCaml”. Spring 2025 Edition. Videos. There are over 200 YouTube videos embedded in this book. They can be watched independently of reading the book. Start with t

Topics: book functional michael ocaml programming

Shop Amazon

Test Results for AMD Zen 5

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-01-01 14:44:57

Post by agner » 2025-07-26, 12:43:13 I have now finished testing the Zen 5. Thank you to the people who have helped running test scripts for me.My test results for the AMD Zen 5 are impressive. It has a lot of features that increase different aspects of the CPU performance to new levels, never seen before.Most importantly, the instruction fetch rate is increased from 16 to 32 bytes per clock cycle. The 16-bytes fetch rate has been a serious bottleneck in both Intel and AMD processors through ma

Topics: cycle instruction instructions vector zen

Shop Amazon

Today's NYT Connections Hints, Answers and Help for July 27, #777

cnet.com See Full Bio 2026-01-01 16:00:06

Looking for the most recent Connections answers? Click here for today's Connections hints, as well as our daily answers and hints for The New York Times Mini Crossword, Wordle, Connections: Sports Edition and Strands puzzles. Today's NYT Connections puzzle slyly threw a couple horror movie titles in there, but they don't get their own category. Need help figuring out what word goes where? Read on for clues and today's Connections answers. The Times now has a Connections Bot, like the one for W

Topics: answers connections group today words

Shop Amazon

The Rise of Shippable Microfactories

news.ycombinator.com Nick Durham 2026-01-01 14:08:44

A shippable microfactory from AUAR Nick Durham is a General Partner at Shadow Ventures, a venture capital firm focused on investing in frontier technologies for the built world. Traditionally, prefabricated construction has meant large fixed factories churning out modules or panels that get shipped to building sites. The siren song is industrial-esque economies of scale in an industry that’s long evaded affordability and efficiency. But those centralized models, made infamous by companies like

Topics: construction factory microfactories microfactory site

Shop Amazon

Instapaper Rakuten Kobo Integration

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-28 21:48:17

We’re excited to announce a new integration that will bring Instapaper to all Rakuten Kobo eReaders. The integration will provide Kobo readers with a seamless way to save and read web articles directly on their Kobo eReaders. In close partnership with Kobo, we’re working diligently on the integration, and we’re aiming to launch at the end of this summer. The new Kobo Instapaper integration will replace Kobo’s previous integration with Pocket which shut down earlier this month. Since the Pocket

Topics: excited instapaper integration kobo pocket

Shop Amazon

Breaking the WASM/JS communication performance barrier

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-28 16:11:31

In sledgehammer every operation is encoded as a sequence of bytes packed into an array. Every operation takes 1 byte plus whatever data is required for it. Each operation is encoded in a batch of four as a u32. Getting a number from an array buffer has a high constant cost, but getting a u32 instead of a u8 is not more expensive. Sledgehammer bindgen reads the u32 and then splits it into the 4 individual bytes. It will shuffle and pack the bytes into as few buckets as possible and try to inline

Topics: bytes getting operation reads u32

Shop Amazon

Does Rocket Money Work? I’m Convinced After Saving $400 in Subscription Costs

cnet.com See Full Bio 2026-01-01 11:00:00

You could be losing money to subscriptions you don't even use. This popular budgeting app can help you cut costs. Getty Images/Rocket Money/Amy Kim/CNET No one likes losing money, yet many of us are allowing dollars to drain from our bank accounts without realizing it. The average US consumer spends around $200 a year on subscriptions they don't even use, according to a recent CNET study. It's easy to see why. You sign up for a free trial or service and forget about it, but the subscription pr

Topics: free money month rocket subscriptions

Shop Amazon

Users claim Discord's age verification can be tricked with video game characters

news.ycombinator.com Amelia Hansford 2026-01-01 09:23:36

Discord’s new age-verification tool may not be as rigorous as it seems, after users reportedly discovered it can be tricked using video game characters. The instant messaging and VoIP platform, commonly used for gaming, implemented an age-check tool earlier this month for UK users in anticipation of a new set of laws aimed at restricting potentially harmful content for under-18s. The Online Safety Act, passed in 2023, requires service providers that host user-generated content to implement age

Topics: age content discord tool verification

Shop Amazon

Latest Tech News

Internet age verification begins rollout, and Apple is set to be dragged into it

When progress doesn’t feel like home: Why many are hesitant to join the AI migration

How big can I print my image?

Fourble turns lists of MP3 files hosted anywhere into podcasts

Solid protocol restores digital agency

The video game adaptation of cult classic Toxic Crusaders cartoon finally gets a release date

National Aviation Reporting Center on Anomalous Phenomena

Formal specs as sets of behaviors

GPT might be an information virus (2023)

Prepare to Celebrate 60 Years of ‘Star Trek’ With Nacelle’s Nostalgic Figures

AI Is Taking Over Your Search Engine. Here's a Look Under the Hood

Today's NYT Connections Hints, Answers and Help for July 28, #778

Today's NYT Connections: Sports Edition Hints and Answers for July 28, #308

Computing’s Top 30: John Werner

Dumb Pipe

Breaking From Tradition, ThinkPad X9 Offers a Cheap Path to OLED Ultraportable

Implementing dynamic scope for Fennel and Lua

The Electron E1 Processor

Low cost mmWave 60GHz radar sensor for advanced sensing

Fast and cheap bulk storage: using LVM to cache HDDs on SSDs

‘Alien: Earth’ Crashes Into Comic-Con With a Massive Outdoor Experience

Where are vacation homes located in the US?

OCaml Programming: Correct and Efficient and Beautiful

Test Results for AMD Zen 5

Today's NYT Connections Hints, Answers and Help for July 27, #777

The Rise of Shippable Microfactories

Instapaper Rakuten Kobo Integration

Breaking the WASM/JS communication performance barrier

Does Rocket Money Work? I’m Convinced After Saving $400 in Subscription Costs

Users claim Discord's age verification can be tricked with video game characters

About GoKawiil

Privacy

Advertising

Latest Tech News

Trending Topics

Hot Now

Popular

Emerging

About GoKawiil

Privacy

Advertising